Masking Cuts: A Performative Entanglement

Abstract

This essay speaks to the vagaries of performing over zoom in the time of COVID arguing that the various materialities in performance intra-act to form a diffractive performative entanglement. Engaging a diffractive methodology, the cutting of my fascia-mask in performance provides an epistemological opening in ongoing sense making of COVID lived experience, an ontological and ironical reckoning of the three dimensional body flatten into pics, and the coauthorship that perhaps breaths life back into the body on papered stage.